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T-Mobile says hackers stole encrypted passwords of ~2M customers; researchers say passwords may have only been hashed with a weak algorithm that can be cracked — T-Mobile disclosed an “incident" in which hackers accessed “some” customers' personal information—but no financial data or passwords.
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| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Fixed flaw in the Fortnite Installer on the Galaxy Apps store and Epic's site let any app hijack the game download process to install anything on a user's phone — The exact problem we expected to happen, happened. — Google has just publicly disclosed that it discovered …
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| Dan Tynan / The Guardian: |
Amazon confirms “FC Ambassador” program with at least 16 fulfillment center employees actively responding to tweets that criticize working conditions — Army of fulfillment center employees jump to company's defense online when it faces a barrage of bad press
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Washington Post, CNET, GeekWire, The Seattle Times, BBC, Fortune, Mashable, Digital Trends, The Daily Caller, Slate, KnowTechie, Business Insider, Boing Boing, reddit.com, and TechCrunch
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| Jacqueline Howard / CNN: |
Study: IRA-backed trolls flooded social media to amplify online debates about vaccines, often linking messages around vaccines to racial or class disparities — - Russian trolls and Twitter bots amplified online vaccine debates between 2014 and 2017, a new study suggests
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New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, Fortune, Firstpost, Engadget, Washington Post, Office of Media Relations, BuzzFeed News, Newser, Gizmodo, STAT, Forbes, and Mashable
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| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News: |
Leaked email: representatives of the top US tech companies are meeting in SF today to discuss their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections — Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting for Friday …
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Telegraph, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, CNNMoney, Vanity Fair, The Hill, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Gateway Pundit, getrevue.co, CNET, Business Insider, 9to5Google, and Axios
Tweets: @npsusa, @commsdirector, @profcarroll, and @justinhendrix
| Sean O'Neill / Skift: |
Rental platform Sonder, which leases, furnishes, and manages its own properties to standardize experience, raises $85M Series C, bringing total raised to $135M — If you thought hotels had a lot of soft brands, wait until you see what's emerging in the vacation rental sector.| Bloomberg: |
Japan is assembling a government-led group, including Uber, Airbus, and 19 others, that aims to bring airborne vehicles to the country in the next decade — - Japan wants to use the technology to ease traffic snarls — Uber already seeking to start air-taxi services in 2023| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
NYT article linking Facebook use to hate crimes in Germany was deservedly and widely criticized, but no access to Facebook data makes further research difficult — On Tuesday, The New York Times' investigation of a study into how Facebook promoted anti-refugee violence in Germany galvanized discussion …
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Nieman Lab, Slate, and Marginal REVOLUTION
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| Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET: |
The House Energy and Commerce Committee says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before it on Wednesday, September 5 — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Sept. 5, the committee confirmed Friday. — “CONFIRMED: Twitter CEO @jack Dorsey …
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Energy and Commerce Committee, Reuters, Axios, Engadget, Bloomberg, and Fortune
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @housecommerce, and @ceciliakang
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Facebook says it is testing a “things in common” label to highlight connections between non-friends who commented on brand or publisher Pages posts — Facebook wants more people to discover things they have in common with the other 2 billion people on its social network.| Ben Collins / NBC News: |
Reddit mods have notified Reddit employees since July 2017 of an Iranian disinformation operation on the site to no response; Reddit now says it's investigating — More than a year before the announcement from Facebook and Twitter, a group of moderators on Reddit noticed a peculiar pattern of submissions.
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Engadget and Axios
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